Quotes About Function

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

John Gall wrote, "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.

In Muncie, the "Constitution had ceased to function," wrote the Chicago Tribune, after the Klan had established a "super-government" not based on the rule of law.

There are some compounding pharmacists who will make you a gotu kola bioabsorbable cream. That works a lot faster. I would say if you can find a compounding pharmacist who will do that, and it's a biologically active form, you could get the same results in about 2 to 3 months." TF: I asked Charles about oral sources, and he suggested one dropperful of Gaia Herbs Gotu Kola Leaf liquid extract per day, which also improves tendon repair and cognitive function. 4

Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . "The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn't have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It's all used all the time, and in complex ways that we don't always understand.

The function ei(kx-?t) represents a wave that travels at a speed of ?/k, which we have just shown to be equal to -k2. Therefore, the different plane-wave components of the solution travel at different speeds: the higher the angular frequency, the greater the speed. For this reason, the equation (1) is called dispersive.

a continuous curve that goes from the lower half-plane to the upper half-plane must cross the horizontal axis at some point.

Compactness is a powerful property of spaces, and it is used in many ways in many different areas of mathematics. One is via appeal to local-to-global principles: one establishes local control on a function, or on some other quantity, and then uses compactness to boost the local control to global control.

if X and Y are two topological spaces and if f : X ? Y is a function between them, then we simply define f to be continuous if f-1 (U) is open for every open set U ? Y. Remarkably, we have found a useful definition of continuity that does not rely on a notion of distance.

the second derivative conveys just the idea we want—a comparison between the value at x and the average value near x. It is worth noting that if f is linear, then the average of f(x - h) and f(x + h) will be equal to f(x), which fits with the familiar fact that the second derivative of a linear function f is zero.

if, for each t, we write u(t) for the function from to that takes x to u(x, t), then it describes how the function u(t) "evolves" over time. The Cauchy problem for an evolution equation is the problem of determining this evolution from knowledge of its initial value u(0).

Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it. This is what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung.

Si la royauté était sacrée, le roi ne l'était pas pour autant ; les hommes du Moyen Age savaient faire la distinction entre la fonction et celui qui l'exerçait.

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It's all working out for the beach and not for function at all.